Artifact-Devouring Player Chapter 138

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Operational readiness has begun.

I grabbed the handle that connected to the lighthouse of the Holy Spirit hidden underground.

Do Kyung Soo called it the Hand of Death because the moment you grab it, it sucks your life out like crazy.

“Mr. Junhyeok, supply current to the red hole shown below. Ms. Gahee, heal.”

“all right.”

“Confirmed.”

“Especially, Gahee, you might see something unpleasant through me. You don’t have to see it.”

“It’s okay. I see cruel things well.”

“That’s not the concept. Then let’s get started right away. If you want to help the main force in battle, time is money!”

Kwak!

Sang-Hyeon immediately grabbed the handle.

Kwaaaaah!

At the same time, a nightmarish scene appeared.

It was a scene where innocent people were dug into huge holes and buried alive.

Most of the undead that currently make up this dungeon were probably created for this reason.

People who died with resentment.

They are fighting hard as someone’s puppets, only their flesh being revived.

‘What kind of pressure are you going to put on them to this extent?’

Sang-Hyeon snorted.

The sight of people being buried alive, screaming and dying. The sight of people writhing in agony.

I saw everything clearly, but strangely, I didn’t feel anything. Rather, I felt indifferent.

It must be a worn-out feeling.

Although he has regressed and is living in the body of his younger days, his mind is somewhere in his fifties.

‘Take my fighting spirit, my passion, my boiling life force, and pour down divine light upon this dungeon.’

I held the handle tighter.

From now on, it’s a question of whether or not you can endure.

I was confident that I could hold on. All I needed was time.

* * *

one side.

‘How can one remain indifferent while watching living people being crushed, bursting, and dying…?’

Lee Ga-hee was surprised at Sang-hyeon’s silent concentration even after seeing the horrific sight itself.

The gruesome deaths of monsters seen in dungeons were much milder than the sight I was seeing now.

There is one reason why what Sang-Hyeon sees is also seen by Lee Ga-Hee.

This was because both hands were in contact with Sang-Hyeon’s back for focused healing.

Of course, she was not caught up in nightmares and emotional shackles, and unlike Sang-Hyeon, she was capable of ‘observation’.

But just by watching, Lee Ga-hee felt a shock that made her dizzy.

Finally, I closed my eyes.

‘Unless you’re a seasoned player, it’s not a weight that can be easily handled, unless you’re indifferent to everything.’

Lee Ga-hee thought so.

What Sang-Hyeon had been experiencing for over 10 minutes was the sight of people dying in various forms.

Even eating living people.

There was also the horrifying sight of demons tearing people apart alive, giggling and chewing on their flesh.

In fact, it wasn’t just Sang-Hyeon’s attitude that surprised her.

‘Your stamina is this high? Considering the amount of healing that went in just now, your current stamina is close to 1,000.’

As before, once the opponent’s health is full, the healer’s healing stops there.

If you pour water into a glass that is full of water, it will spill out instead of being able to hold more.

So, while healing a target, the healer was able to estimate the total amount of health.

But it was strange.

If we calculate backwards through the hill that entered Sang-Hyeon, we can see that Sang-Hyeon’s current stamina is considerably high.

Even if we take the minimum value considering the margin of error, it definitely exceeded 850.

‘If you pour all your effort into the inspection, it will be difficult to go over 500 even if you set the artifact settings quite expensively.’

Her guess was accurate, as it was based on data maintained by the association. And it was.

‘Even if you’re a swordsman specializing in defense and stamina, you need to be in the mid-200s to have stamina exceeding 850.’

If you are a defensive concept inspector like Jo Jin-ho, you should be at least level 250.

But as we have seen before, Sang-Hyeon is not a defensive concept. Rather, he is closer to an extreme offensive concept.

In that case, it is practically a ‘strength test’, but the current ridiculous physical strength estimates are very disparate.

‘It doesn’t seem to have the skill stealing or duplication abilities that I had guessed before… … This isn’t on that level.’

Lee Ga-hee’s eyes wavered.

She is proud of having accumulated data on quite a few players while working on the scout team.

Sang-Hyeon was a special being who could not be contained in any form. The depth and limits of his abilities were not expected.

‘What the hell are you? What kind of power do you have that makes none of my predictions come true?’

Lee Ga-hee looked at the back of Sang-hyun, who was concentrating, while saying things in his mind that Sang-hyun could not hear.

Looking at his back, which seemed even larger, she found herself shrinking without realizing it.

“Focus more!”

Sang-Hyeon shouted.

Then, Lee Ga-hee and Jeong Jun-hyeok, who were in a state of concentration, called attention once again and gathered their strength.

Kookoo ookoo. Kookoo ookoo.

The lighthouse, which had not moved a single muscle until now, was about to move. A change had occurred!

* * *

Five minutes after that.

Kuaaaah… … !

“What is this sound?”

“Which way? Is it an explosion?”

Do Kyung Soo’s gaze suddenly turned to the loud noise coming from the northeast and the feeling of the earth shaking.

Contrary to expectations, what came into view was a building rising from the southwest of the palace.

“Sihu, what is that?”

“I don’t know either.”

“Yeah. I think it’s my first time seeing it too.”

What finally appeared was a building that looked exactly like a lighthouse.

There have been many instances of entering the imperial palace while conducting large-scale attacks.

However, during the internal exploration process, I never saw any structure similar to a lighthouse.

This is because it is not a sea or an island where a lighthouse would be expected to exist in the first place. So it was an unexpected presence.

Right then.

Shaaaaah!

The lighthouse, which had until then been nothing more than a dull, gray structure, suddenly began to flash with light.

It wasn’t just a bright light.

It was a warm and divine light that even Do Kyung-soo and Choi Si-hoo, who were far away, could feel.

Wheezing! Wheezing!

At the same time, the lighthouse that had been emitting light in both the north and south directions began to rotate and illuminate all directions.

From that moment on, a cataclysmic change that surprised even Do Kyung-soo and Choi Si-hoo began.

The undead exposed to the holy light emitted by the Holy Spirit’s Lighthouse began to melt.

However, even though the Frozen Mages and mid-to-high level undead monsters were weakened, they showed signs of holding on.

The lowest ghouls, mummy-like beings, scattered in all directions like scraps of paper the moment they faced the light head-on.

“There was such a destructive means of attack? In this dungeon? Where and how was it found?”

Even Do Kyungsoo, who rarely speaks quickly, seemed to be flustered and his words poured out like machine gun fire.

It wasn’t just a light that would strike fear into the undead legions.

Kill the insignificant ones!

Even if they were not such beings, it was a huge debuff that continuously ‘weakened’ them.

Moreover, there were no exceptions, as the intense light continued to rotate and illuminate the entire legion.

On the other hand, Do Kyung-soo’s Sword Ghost-Sword God team, which received the holy light, received a buff.

It was a buff that increased damage to undead by 50%.

Since the relative debuffs and buffs are combined, the difference felt in battle has become more than twice that of before.

Shut up!

Large demons and frozen mages were dying here and there.

The Swordsman-Swordsman team was easy to conquer because many of its members specialized in dealing with abnormal status.

With the lighthouse’s power added to it, the undead army was no longer able to withstand it.

“No, why is Shin Sang-hyun there?”

At that moment, Do Kyung-soo was shocked when he saw Sang-hyun standing next to the lighthouse. He thought he was seeing a hallucination.

“Could it be that Shin Sang-hyun operated that lighthouse? How on earth? What route did he know?”

“How would I know that? Shin Sang-hyun knew information we didn’t from the beginning.”

“Wow… … This seems like a huge turning point for this strategy. This will make not only Phase 1 easier, but Phase 2 as well.”

“That’s right. What we always struggled with was the fierce local warfare in Phase 2… … .”

Do Kyung-soo also turned his gaze to the area around the palace where the lighthouse’s lights were densely placed.

This is the entrance to the dungeon.

And as you advance towards the palace, battles unfold against bigger demons.

The Swordsman-Swordsman team called the initial battle phase 1, and the battle near the palace phase 2.

Phase 2 features all sorts of large demons, starting with bizarre demons like the Abomination.

It is also the most difficult section, so it makes you very nervous.

Oh no! Oh no!

The current scene was different.

The demons on that side were also suffering from the evenly shining light from the lighthouse, which was adjusted to all angles up, down, left, and right.

The biggest problem is that there are no flying monsters in the undead army, so there is nothing to do about the lighthouse.

“What on earth have you done, Shin Sang-hyun? I told you to be creative, but I can’t believe you’re ‘creating’ a situation… … .”

Do Kyungsoo’s gaze landed squarely on Sanghyun, who was standing next to the lighthouse.

Our eyes met, and Sang-Hyeon was waving both hands in greeting with a bright expression.

“Haha. I thought I overestimated it as much as possible with a lot of selfish intentions, but even that was an underestimation.”

Do Kyung Soo laughed heartily.

I didn’t want to ask how he knew about that lighthouse, how he found it, and how he put it into operation.

Every dungeon is an information battle.

If there is information that only Sang-Hyeon knows, it is better to respect the value and rarity of that information.

Of course, you can also hear about the course from your colleagues.

But I didn’t want to ask first. Or there might be a way to ‘buy’ the information by paying a fair price.

“With this attack, I think we can definitely make it to phase 3.”

“That’s right. It seems like our entire team owes Shin Sang-hyun a debt. A huge debt, at that.”

“I have to fight harder to pay it back.”

“Okay. Let’s go!”

The battle situation completely changed due to Sang-Hyeon.

The Swordsman-Swordsman team, with the lighthouse’s buff on their backs, entered the melee.

At the same time, towards the lighthouse of the Holy Spirit.

“Let’s join in too. This is going to be an experience feast, so we can’t miss it. Let’s run right now.”

“great!”

“Let’s go right away!”

At the same time, Sang-Hyeon and his group from the lighthouse also finished preparing to come out again.

Monsters that have become weaker and weaker.

Especially the mid-boss monsters!

Sang-Hyeon had no intention of giving up on those who definitely dropped unique-grade artifacts.

Sang-Hyeon’s calculation was that he would definitely catch Jung-Bo with his own hands, even if he didn’t know about the other guys.

As he walked back the way he had come, Sang-Hyeon looked at one of the new titles that had been given to him.

A title was given to him because thousands of ghouls were massacred while operating the lighthouse.

It was also a title given as expected based on the recipe that Sang-Hyeon knew before coming to this dungeon.

That’s right.

【Ghoul Slayer】

■ Title Grade: S-Class

It was a precious S-class title.